I did this a while back with my Kinesis wheels. For what you are doing there is no reason to split the inner and outer hoops. Just remove the center and do what you are going to do. I suggest having the centers hard anodized instead of powder coated. This is also a good time to polish the outer lip and clean and paint the inside hoop for easy clean up.
Went from this:
To this:
In the last picture you can see little marks that I made with a Sharpie to keep track of the tightening pattern. I went in two steps and in a star pattern. I don't recall the torque values, but you can easily determine that by the size of the hardware.
Andrew